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...Bush. Others find it hard not to; ask Thierry Frémaux, chief programmer of the Cannes Film Festival. The films in competition at Cannes last year provoked such widespread derision that some sort of revamping was essential. So Frémaux declared that Cannes 2004 would cast a wider net. In other words, more Hollywood glamour. More films with a perky pulse. And no Brown Bunny - the Vincent Gallo road movie that, from the moment of its screening last year, became the code phrase for pretentious junk. Sure enough, Cannes 2004 was brighter and more fun. The Hollywood stars...
Although much of the flyer was devoted to describing the budget crunch caused by Harvard’s expansion, it also called for more reliable training opportunities, wider educational benefits and housing assistance for employees...
...emphasized within NSF [in the PECASE nomination process] is the educational aspect of the research,” said Wakeley, who is writing two textbooks that will incorporate his research. “This award will be extremely helpful in promoting my teaching and research efforts to a wider audience...
...objectives appears to be felt more widely than in Iraq. The State Department's Intelligence and Research Department is reportedly warning that the fallout from the revelations has been devastating, not only in the Arab and Muslim world, but globally, even among some allies in the Coalition. In this wider setting, what is at stake is the benefit of the doubt granted by allies to the U.S. in the waging wars where legal gray areas abound - from the detention of terror suspects at Guantanamo to the very invasion of Iraq in the first place. Coalition allies have suppressed their...
...some of those soldiers currently bearing the blame are suggesting that responsibility for the abuses at Abu Ghraib lies much higher up the chain, with U.S. military intelligence. Unfortunately, while the various inquiries may hold Americans' attention for some time to come, however, for Iraqis and much of the wider international community they are but footnotes...